{"id":246620,"date":"2010-01-29T12:59:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T17:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10001348"},"modified":"2010-01-29T12:20:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T17:20:53","slug":"dont-let-your-parents-buy-an-awful-laptop-for-too-much-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/246620","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Let Your Parents Buy An Awful Laptop For Too Much Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/laptop-thumb-158x98-36465.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy for companies to target non-tech savvy people to unload outdated products that pale in comparison to the stuff on the lower end of the market. Alvaro spotted <a href=\"http:\/\/hobbies-leisure.drleonards.com\/Hobbies-Leisure\/Home-Entertainment\/Intel-Pentium-IV-Wireless-Notebook-Computer\/35352.cfm\">this terrible deal<\/a>, which offers a machine with 512MB of RAM, a Pentium IV processor and a 30GB hard drive for $400.<\/p>\n<p>By comparison, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestbuy.com\/site\/eMachines+-+Laptop+with+Intel%26%23174%3B+Celeron%26%23174%3B+Processor+-+Black\/9719749.p?id=1218159404821&#038;skuId=9719749\">it&#8217;s easy to find laptops<\/a> with far superior processors and several times the RAM and hard drive for less than $300.<\/p>\n<p>Laptop users, if you were shopping for a new machine for your folks, which specs and price would you shoot for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s easy for companies to target non-tech savvy people to unload outdated products that pale in comparison to the stuff on the lower end of the market. Alvaro spotted this terrible deal, which offers a machine with 512MB of RAM, a Pentium IV processor and a 30GB hard drive for $400. By comparison, it&#8217;s easy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4514,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}